I have a set of objects that themselves each create a bunch of helper objects. Inside of the helper objects I need access to many of the parents instance variables, such as "name", a logger object and some more.
I could initialize the helper objects with all of the needed variables but that seems quite tedious. Is there a way to make the parents instance variables known to all the objects owned by it?
I have found a wealth of similar questions but most are about class variables and inheritance so I was not able to find a solution yet.
Example & rubyfiddle:
class Helper def initialize() end def complexStuff puts # Parent object name end end class Main attr_accessor :name def initialize( name ) @name = name @helper = Helper.new end def update puts "[(#{name}).update]" @helper.complexStuff end end instance1 = Main.new( "Instance 1" ) instance2 = Main.new( "Instance 2" ) instance1.update instance2.update 
